to tell her to jog on? naming day

[bettyberry]

Just received an invite to a naming ceremony.

Its a non-religious thing and is mostly people giving speeches and dedications to the children (Part of me is thinking of the scene in sleeping beauty where the fairies bestow gifts on the baby)

There is a dress code, a gift list (no deviating!) and strict instructions not to drink alcohol even though the venue has a bar.

There will be no food provided for the 'party' just snacks (crisps, nuts etc) or drinks apart from soda.

It is 3 hours long, early evening, right around dinner time.

The children haven't changed names, no blended family, marriage or ensuring DCs have the same surname etc (I'd still be a bit for these but understand the value of celebrating a 'new' family set up) parents have been together 10+years.

The children are 5 and 8.

To me it all feels a bit grabby (the specific gift list) and that the host (the DCs mother) is feeling a bit put out both her sisters have had babies recently and no one is interested in her spoilt children.

Please tell me I'm not going barmy and this really is just a 'look at me, I'm here! Look at me!' thing.

Was it a sand naming l big ceremony?

Ahem... I did a quick google...

*naming ceremony

Sodding phone!!

I'm so glad you updated us.

I looked up the sand thing. Oh my god. It sounds like something they'd do for a blended family though:

Blending of the Sands
Celebrant:
Like colours of the rainbow, we’re all different and special, valuable and precious. Each of us has unique qualities and talents which makes us the individuals we are.

Today, we use colours to indicate the people making up (Baby’s) life. They stand for (Baby’s) (Father), (Mother), (Baby’s Sister) and (Baby).

When these sands are blended together, these four people join in their commitment to (Baby)and to each other becoming an united family unit.

(Everyone pours the sand into the main jar)

The sand has now been joined together and cannot be isolated. These grains of sand can never be separated and poured again into the individual containers, so will your family be a moulding of four individual personalities, bonded together in a loving, supportive family unit.

Monday! It's Monday! Keep coming back with the updates OP (as it's Monday, I'm bored and cold and have no sand or fruit shoots)

ooh it might be! Isn't that a kiddies craft kit thing?

disclaimer - this is not the sand thingy in the ceremony although I really wish it was!

yes OP!!!!! You ledge for coming back and updating

Omg that sand thing! Each layer represents how much effort the pourer will make in the kid's life - you'd feel like you had to have the biggest layer wouldn't you!

there's... there's.... I think they just relived their wedding dance to their wedding song sis said it was I don't remember and they are the only people on the dance floor.

Do people do that at parties?

never been married so what do I know

I am loving this thread far too much

At least the children at 8 and 5 are slightly too young to be truly embarrassed by their mother!!

Oh THANK YOU for the update, Betty!

Excellent, an update!

Glad to see she's still batshit crazy, OP!

Wait a minute
You can be hired to be a Cinderella and dance like you're on pills? Someone will PAY me for that? Where do I apply?

Thank you for updating OP. I'd forgotten about this thread.

Bwah-hahahahah!!! I really shouldn't laugh because it's actually pretty pathetic. But I keep picturing 'Cinderella on Crack' whirling like a hyped-up dervish around DS and her PH (poor husband) on the dance floor madly tossing about handfuls of colored sand.

I'm sure the party was a 'great success and a lovely time was had by all' (not). Or at the least, it'll provide much fodder for many a merry tale amongst their friends and acquaintances.

Just don't go. The more people keep going along with this nonsense themore greedy and dictatorial thesee grabbers will get. Naming ceremony. What on earth is that anyway.

What a marvellous thread. Thanks op.

The sand has now been joined together and cannot be isolated.

It'd be an interesting engineering exercise to try to think up a way to separate sand by colour. I'm guessing the different colours would have slightly different densities and grain sizes, so a fine stream blown horizontally would drop to the ground stratified by colour. Maybe. Be fun to spend a day in a lab and figure it out.

So, if her dh decides to take her up on the offer and get divorced, how is she going to separate his grains of sand out?

if there was one thread I was hoping for an update on this is it.

I actually saw something about a sand ceremony that I thought was quite sweet but I can only assume that I was on drugs at the time.

This is all brilliant. Can you imagine being the hired Cinderella? Sad that she wasn't involved in the second time round first dance.

Can't believe the husband didn't take the option of divorce.

YouTheCat

You are a diamond updating us with this!

Dear lord! My goodness, OP, you are well out of it. You can laugh in the face of anyone who berates you for not being there.

Thumbs up to OP.

omg that sand ceremony thing is vomit-inducing.